Gulag Doctors - Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin''s Labour Camps

About the author

Dan Healey is an expert on the social and cultural history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. He is the author of Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia, Bolshevik Sexual Forensics, and Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. He is professor emeritus of modern Russian history at the University of Oxford.

Summary

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions

Product details

• Authors: Dan Healey, Healey Dan
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9780300187137
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18713-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Political oppression & persecution, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Russia / General